TORONTO - A former Scouts Canada leader has been arrested
and charged with 17 offences in connection with the sexual
assault of two children over an 11-year-period.Jeremy Nathaniel Gregg, 45, of Toronto, was
arrested and charged.Police believe Gregg may have additional victims.(CP24)MORE:
Historic sexual assault

LALITPUR DISTRICT
- A Nova Scotia businessman whose sexual abuse convictions
were overturned in Canada has reportedly been arrested in
Nepal for allegedly forcing a boy to have sex with him.Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, 71, is in jail in the
Lalitpur district.(CBC)MORE:
Canadian sent to jail

WABAMUN
- A man has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated
sexual assault and kidnapping in the severe beating of a
child on the Paul First Nation in AB.
James Clifford Paul, 21, was arrested late on the Alexis
Nakota Sioux Nation.The 6-year-old girl was found lying naked and
severely injured in the snow on the reserve west on
Saturday.
(CBC) MORE:
Girl
regains consciousness
6-year-old assaulted

VANCOUVER - Charges have been dropped against the
23-year-old man previously accused of sexually assaulting
a 9-year-old girl in Surrey after police determined that
he did not commit the crime.Surrey RCMP now say that Cory Schaumleffel, 28, has
been charged in connection to the August incident.Police requested a stay of proceedings in the case
against the previous suspect on Oct. 10, saying the man
confessed to a crime he didn't commit.(CTV)MORE:
Calls for better public safety in Surrey
Police arrest wrong person

KAMLOOPS - David Jennings, 51, has been handed an
indeterminate sentence after being convicted of sexually molesting an 8-year-old
boy he was babysitting in 2011.Crown lawyer says Jennings has 4 prior sexual
assault convictions involving children and has breached a number of court
orders.(CTV)

VANCOUVER - A 9-year-old
girl who was lured from her bedroom last week, abducted and then sexually
assaulted provided some of the evidence that helped police identify a
suspect, RCMP say.Donovan Christopher Adams, 23, is facing
charges.(CBC)MORE:
Man charged

LONDON - Rolf Harris has been jailed
for 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting young
women and girls after the trial judge told the
84-year-old entertainer he had taken advantage of the
trust provided by his fame.(Guardian UK)

SAINT JOHN - A NB police
officer is suspected of sexually abusing at least 260
children over the course of nearly three decades dating
back to the late 1950s.After decades of secrecy,
private investigators and Saint John, NB officials say
that a lone police officer,
Sgt. Kenneth Estabrooks, was
behind a massive child abuse scandal that targeted
vulnerable children for at least 25 years.Estabrooks died in 2005
of cancer.(CBC)
Class action lawsuit

FORT
MCMURRAY - ALERT
said Russell Hancock, 35, was arrested April 18.Investigators said
Hancock was a teacher's assistant in Fort McMurray, and
it's alleged he committed a number of sexual offenses
against 2 students in that city over the past 10 months.(CTV)

TORONTO -
2 men and 2 youths have been charged in connection with
alleged multiple sexual assaults on a 4-year-old girl over
several years.According to the Toronto
police sex crimes unit, a now 7-year-old girl from the
east end of Scarborough was sexually assaulted multiple
times by Toronto brothers Raymond and Martin Savoie and 2
boys also from Toronto between 2010 and 2012. (CBC)

HALIFAX -
A cross-country child exploitation investigation has led
to the seizure of over a million images and video
depicting the sexual abuse of children and the rescue of 5
children, the RCMP announced Thursday.Operation Snapshot 3
involved police agencies throughout Canada and led to the
arrest of 54 individuals and more than 300 criminal
charges laid.(CTV)MORE:
Moving targets
343 charges
8 AB men arrested
Timeline of investigation

He was one of the most beloved teachers in the
small world of international schools that serve the children of diplomats,
well-off American expatriates and local elites.That was the public persona of William Vahey, carefully crafted over
four decades until a maid cleaning his home in Nicaragua stole a 16-gigabyte
memory drive. (AP) Hundreds
contact FBI

EDMONTON
- A former Edmonton soldier who lured young boys on the
Internet and used a webcam to engage in online sex acts
with some of them was sent to prison Wednesday.Matthew Richervezeau, 24,
was handed an 8-year prison term after earlier pleading
guilty to 48 various charges.Child porn related charges
CFNIS

Child porn ring

CALGARY -
10 Albertans have been arrested in a child porn ring.Police say the
investigation started 4 months ago with 13 search warrants
starting last December.

ORILLIA- Police say there are 8 additional child
victims in a sexual assault case that includes accusations of
bestiality, conspiracy to kidnap and rape a child, voyeurism and the
making of child pornography. Police have also introduced new
allegations that some children were drugged before they were sexually
assaulted. Shayne Lund, 22, of Midland, Ont., has been in custody since
October on 110 sex-related charges. 2 female friends of his are also in
custody. It is alleged the women helped Lund get access to children
between the ages of 2 and 5. Avery Taylor, 20, is facing 20 charges.
Kathryn Thompson, 19, faces 26 charges. (QMI)
Child abuse case3 charged

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Surrey woman has been
sentenced to 10 years in prison for travelling to
northern Virginia to have sex with 2 children. Theresa
Goddard, 45, was sentenced in federal court. She had
pleaded guilty in October to attempting to coerce and
entice 2 children into engaging in illegal sexual
activity. (CP)

HINTON - An investigation
by ALERT has led to the rescue of a 4-year-old Hinton
who had been sexually exploited. Kenneth McKinley, 52,
has been charged with sexual interference and sexual
assault as well as making, distributing and accessing
child pornography. ALERT's Northern Albert Child
Exploitation team began their investigation following a
tip from the RCMP National Child Exploitation
Coordination Centre in Ottawa. (CTV)

BATTLEFORD - Paul
Leroux, a former dormitory supervisor who has been
convicted of sexually abusing boys at a residential
school decades ago, has been given a 3-year sentence by
a judge in Battleford, SK. Leroux worked at the Beauval
Indian Residential School nearly 50 years ago. Last
month, he was found guilty on 10 counts of indecent
assault. (CBC) 3 year sentenceTo serve time

KITCHENER - A London man
was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for his
attack on a Cambridge 12-year-old boy with autism in a
care facility. The attack took place in September 2012,
at a specialized facility in London where the boy was
staying and Gregory Thomas Simard, 24, was employed.
Simard pleaded guilty
to attempted murder in May. (CTV) Found criminally responsibleCriminally responsible

VANCOUVER - BC's highest
court has doubled a prison term to 10 years for an
elderly father who sexually abused 3 of his daughters.
Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein called the original 5-year
sentence handed to the man, identified only as K.V.E.,
"demonstrably unfit," saying it was disproportionate to
the gravity of the offences and a substantial departure
from sentences imposed in similar cases. (CP)

HALIFAX - Police arrested
30-year-old Aaron Kenneth Hudgins from Timberlea, NS. He
has been charged with one count of accessing child
pornography and one charge of possessing child
pornography. Hudgins is a youth pastor at the Timberlea
Baptist church. (CTV) Pastor
resigns after charges

CALGARY - Police has
charged 39-year old Rodney James Marcynuik of Airdrie
with sexually assaulting a youth who was once in his
care at a family operated foster home. CPS
investigators allege the abuse occurred between June,
2003 and November, 2008, in Calgary and Airdrie while
the child lived with Marynuik. Rodney Marcynuik was
arrested on Monday, Sept. 30 and has been charged.
Police believe Marcynuik and his wife fostered 18
children in their home between 2001 and 2010.
(Beacon)
Foster parent charged

SAINT JOHN- News that a
former Saint John police officer may have abused more
than 260 victims has left many Maritimers stunned.
Investigators now suspect Kenneth Estabrooks sexually
abused as many as 263 children. Allegations against
Estabrooks first surfaced in 1975 when he was a 22-year
veteran of the Saint John Police Force. He was
sentenced to 6 years in prison and died in 2005 after a
battle with cancer. (CTV)

VANCOUVER - Latif Tata,
39, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of
sexual assault on the children, who were between the
ages of two and four years old when they attended
Shining Stars Family Childcare in Maple Ridge, BC,
between 2010 and 2012. (CTV)

TORONTO - A University of
Toronto professor who once held the post of deputy
education minister in Ontario and Manitoba was slapped
with 2 new charges in an ongoing child pornography
investigation. Benjamin Levin now faces a total of 7
charges. The charge against Levin which deals with the
making of child pornography is in relation to alleged
"written texts." (CTV) Child porn chargesBenjamin Levin

VICTORIA - Police have been searching for Michael
Dunahee for more than 22 years, since the then
4-year-old boy disappeared during a family outing in
Victoria, BC. While the missing child is believed to
have grown into a 26-year-old man, police investigative
techniques have also matured, making the Victoria Police
Department hopeful that Michael's case can still be
resolved. (CBC)
Michael Dunahee
Police
shifting through wave of new tips$100,000
reward for missing boy

SIEM REAP PROVINCE
- A Canadian tourist is awaiting trial in Cambodia after
being arrested on child-prostitution charges. Officials
in Siem Reap province told CP that Vijai Indra Deo Kumar
was arrested after he was allegedly found with a
14-year-old girl in a hotel. (CP)

OTTAWA - An RCMP officer will appear before a court
doctor in Ottawa this morning after he was charged with
several serious offences related to a child abuse
investigation police are calling one of the worst cases
of abuse they've seen. Ottawa police arrested the
41-year-old officer and a 34-year-old woman after an investigation at the officer's home. There is
a court-ordered publication ban on the names of the
accused and victims. (CBC) Officer
and wife charged

CORNER BROOK
- A retired Roman Catholic priest was given an 11-year
sentence in a western Newfoundland court for sexually
abusing children. George Ansel Smith, 75, was sentenced
in Supreme Court in Corner Brook for offences involving
13 children he assaulted between 1969 and 1989. Smith
pleaded guilty to 38 charges. (CBC)
George Smith
Priest pleads guilty

EDMONTON - Police said
that Bruce Windsor, 51, had been arrested and charged
with possession and production of child pornography,
along with several counts of breach of probation.
According to police, Windsor was living in a halfway
house in downtown Edmonton when he was taken into
custody. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Police
warning

MONTREAL
- William Kokesch, 65, a Montreal deacon is being
accused of producing and distributing child pornography
a day after police say they seized 2,000 images from his
home. (CP) MORE:
Deacon accusedDeacon removed from his post

VANCOUVER
- Alleged child sex offender Abraham Kiewiet has been
charged with 10 additional counts related to 5 victims.
Police said the alleged assaults on male and female
victims between the ages of 12 and 16 took place between
1975 and 1982 when the accused worked as a lifeguard for
the Vancouver Park Board. Kiewiet, 70, is now charged
with a total of 22 offences involving 10 victims. 8
counts of indecent assault on a male, 3 counts of
indecent assault on a female and 11 counts of gross
indecency have been laid. (CTV)

REGINA -
10 SK residents are facing charges following a
multi-agency investigation targeting online child
predators. In all, 21 people were arrested during
Operation Snapshot. The investigation, led by the
Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited
Children, also resulted in the rescue of one child in
Saskatoon. Authorities found hundreds of thousands of
images on more than 100 computers and hard drives, and
1,000 disks. (CTV) MORE: 21 arrested, child rescued

STATE COLLEGE
- Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to at least 30 years
in prison in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought
shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno’s
downfall. The sentence means Sandusky will be in prison
at least until he’s nearly 100 years old. He was
convicted in June of abusing 10 boys over 15 years,
including some attacks inside Penn State athletic
facilities. (AP) MORE:
Sandusky sentenced
Penn State child sex abuse scandal
Jerry Sandusky

Stepdad
jailed

OTTAWA - A
48-year-old Kanata, ON, man who took photos of his
10-year-old stepdaughter in her mother's lingerie and
showed her porn as he molested her was sentenced to 20
months behind bars. (QMI) MORE:
Pimp dad found guilty

PENTICTON - A BC judge
has found a Penticton man guilty of sexually abusing and
prostituting his teenage stepdaughter. The
stepdaughter, who is now 18, told the court the abuse
started when she was 12 years old. She said the accused
forced her into prostitution when she was 17 in order to
financially support his drug habit. (CBC)

VANCOUVER - A former
political campaigner with Vancouver’s COPE party has
pleaded guilty to a series of sex assaults on 4 young
girls over a 14-year period. Ibata Noric Hexamer, 44,
admitted to 6 charges involving 3 separate violent sex
attacks against girls as young as 6 years old. (CTV)
MORE: Political organizer pleads guilty

MOOSE JAW - A
Saskatchewan man who sexually assaulted his own
granddaughters is now behind bars. 86-year-old Pete
Therrien of Willow Bunch was sentenced in a Moose Jaw
courtroom. His granddaughters who struggled for more
than 20 years to bring, their grandfather to justice say
they were glad to finally see him put behind bars.
(CTV)

SASKATOON - A
Lloydminster-area man who was caught sharing a massive
child pornography collection has received a 5-year
prison sentence. Shane Dale Pattison, 21, was sentenced
after pleading guilty to 53 child porn-related
offences. He had been sharing the images online with
more than 400 people, some of whom were actively
involved in abusing children. (CBC)

VANCOVUER - Authorities in BC
have laid 10 new charges against convicted sex
offender Christopher Paul Neil after conducting
investigations into his activities over the past 10 years
in Vancouver, Maple Ridge and Cambodia.Neil became known as the
"Swirl Face" sex abuser for digitally altering his face in
images posted online, but was identified and arrested in
Bangkok in 2007.The most recent
alleged incidents took place in 2013 in Vancouver.(CBC)

Candace Conti says the abuse began when she was 9 years
old, distributing Bibles door to door with a fellow
churchgoer, a loud, hulking man named Jonathan
Kendrick. She later learned she was not Kendrick’s
first victim, that he had been convicted in 1994 of
child molesting. That led to her suing the
WatchtowerBible and Tract
Society of New York Inc. - the corporation that oversees
Jehovah's Witnesses
- on the grounds that the elders of her congregation
knew of Kendrick’s record and did nothing to protect
her. Last month, in a landmark ruling, a California
jury sided with Conti, ordering the Watchtower to pay
nearly $25M in damages and Kendrick to pay about $3M.
(Toronto Star)

SAGUENAY
- A retired priest, already accused of molesting 3
children, was hit with 63 additional sex charges.
Paul-Andre Harvey, 75, is charged with sexual assaults
against 35 children between 1963 and 1995, nearly all of
whom were girls between 5 and 12 years of age. (QMI)
MORE: New charges

TORONTO - A former Scout leader and school teacher is
facing numerous sexual assault charges involving young
boys. Toronto police said the alleged victims were
between the ages of 11 and 15. The assaults allegedly
took place between 1965 and 1979. On Friday, police
arrested Norman Neil McLeod, 71, and charged him with 11
counts of indecent assault on a male, eight counts of
gross indecency and assault. (CTV) MORE: Historic
sex assaults

ORILLIA - The OPP's child exploitation
unit says five children were drugged and sexually
assaulted in a Warminster, ON, residence on several
occasions in 2011. Paul Gerard Devries, 35, of
Warminster, ON, has been charged. (CTV)

SUDBURY - Michael Clement was so active
downloading, sharing and chatting about child
pornography on the Internet over a five-month period in
2010 that he drew the attention of 5 law enforcement
bodies and 2 child protection bodies in Canada and the
US. (QMI) MORE: 3 years

VERNON -
Elementary school teacher Deborah Ashton has been found not guilty of
sexually assaulting one of her young students. The 47-year-old was also acquitted on a charge of
sexual interference with a person under the age of 14 Wednesday in BC
Supreme Court. A previous trial for Ashton ended a year ago when jurors
were unable to reach a verdict. (CTV)

TORONTO - An
85-year-old retired school teacher has been charged in
connection to a sexual assault investigation dating back
50 years, and police fear there could be more potential
victims. Toronto police allege the suspect befriended a
seven-year-old boy and sexually abused the victim for
several years. Alec Owen, 85, of Toronto, has been
charged with two counts of indecent assault on a male.
(CTV)

CHARLOTTETOWN - A PEI man was sentenced to 6 years in
prison for sex crimes against a child. David
Vernon James Keaveny, 37, was found guilty of two counts
of sexual interference and one count of invitation to
sexual touching. (CBC) MORE:
'Horrible monster' sentenced

TORONTO - Police have arrested a man in
connection with the abduction and sexual assault of a
4-year-old girl from a North York home last year on
Boxing Day. The girl was visiting from Connecticut, and
staying at a home near Bathurst St and Wilson Ave. She
was taken from her room around 3:30am and sexually
assaulted nearby. (Toronto Star) MORE: Arrest in
Boxing day abduction

ROSSLAND
- A 17-year-old is facing 47 charges, including numerous
sexual offences and child luring. The youth, who can’t
be named because of his age, is accused of using social
media to contact children aged 10 to 14 to have them
perform sexual acts over their web cameras and arrange
face-to-face meetings with them. Police have currently
identified 20 children were involved. (QMI)

TORONTO - A mother who exposed two known
child molesters to her 10-year-old daughter for their
perverse sexual gratification was sentenced Tuesday to 6
1/2 years in jail. "This was a case like no other,"
Justice Gary Trotter said in passing sentence on the now
61-year-old first offender, who adopted the 18-month-old
girl from Romania in 1997. Last June a jury found the
mother enabled convicted pedophile Randolph "Randie"
Bartley, 54, to babysit her daughter between Feb 1,
2005, and Aug 21, 2006. (QMI)

VAUGHAN - 60 people, including 3
teenagers, face child pornography charges in what the
OPP said is the largest bust of its kind in Canadian
history. The OPP said Thursday more than 200 charges
were laid against the suspects from across the province.
One suspect is also under arrest in the US. (CTV)
MORE: Charged Persons
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EDMONTON - A local man admitted Tuesday
to having sex with his own children and the daughters of
two girlfriends and using a whip and a dog in his
twisted crimes. The 41-year-old man - who cannot be
named to protect the identity of the victims - pleaded
guilty to 8 counts of sexual interference, 8 counts of
inviting sexual touching, 4 counts of child pornography,
2 counts of incest, unlawful confinement, attempted
counselling of sexual interference, administering a
stupefying drug, bestiality and using a whip in a sexual
assault. (QMI)

TORONTO - A Toronto public school teacher
has been sentenced to nearly four and a half years in
prison on charges related to child pornography.
However, with credit for time already served, Stewart
Adams will spend less than two years in jail. Adams
plead guilty to possessing, distributing and accessing
child porn. (CityNews)

OTTAWA - Raymond Lahey, the disgraced
Roman Catholic bishop who admitted he was addicted to
looking at child pornography, will be released. Lahey,
71, a Newfoundlander and former head of the Nova Scotia
diocese of Antigonish, was caught in 2009 at Ottawa's
airport after authorities checked his personal computer
and found a large cache of child pornography. (CBC)
MORE: Raymond
LaheyLahey
to be releasedGuilty pleaGuilty plea to 1 charge

HALIFAX - A
Cape Breton man convicted of sexually abusing boys
decades ago has been acquitted of all of the charges
against him because of the long delay in bringing him to
trial, a judge ruled Thursday. The Nova Scotia Court of
Appeal found that Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh was not
brought to trial in a reasonable time after he was
extradited from India in 2007 to face the charges that
surfaced in 1995 and dated back to the 1970s. (CP)

LAC LA BICHE - After an
investigation in the US lead investigators to his
doorstep, a Lac La Biche man is facing charges of child
pornography. ALERT's ICE unit has charged 62-year-old
Daniel Quiring Stoesz with possessing child pornography,
and making it available. After some investigation, the
ICE unit found the accused is employed by the Government
of Alberta, as a foster care supervisor in the Lac La
Biche area. (CTV)

TORONTO - An elementary
school teacher accused of child pornography offences is
in court. James Robert Coulter, 41, works at East
York’s Cosburn Middle School where he taught a Grade 7/8
split class. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB)
said the charges do not involve any students from the
school. (CityNews) MORE: Teacher faces child porn charges

MONCTON - A 52-year-old
Moncton, NB, man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison
for what Mounties call one of the largest child
pornography seizures in Canada. Douglas Hugh Stewart
previously pleaded guilty to the charges in Moncton
court. On March 23, police seized more than 5M
pornographic images after a province-wide investigation
was launched in 2010. (QMI) PREVIOUS:
Child porn guilty plea

BRAMPTON - An
Ontario lawyer has been convicted of possessing child
pornography and given permission to resign from his
profession. But because of a publication ban imposed by
a judge in his criminal case in Brampton in December
2009, there is almost nothing more you can know.
(Toronto Star)

OTTAWA - The
Supreme Court of Canada has ordered a new trial for a
man who claimed he collected hundreds of child porn
images for artistic purposes. But in a unanimous 9-0
decision, the top court says an appeals court was right
to overturn a trial judge's acquittal of Robert Katigbak.
The Supreme Court says the Ontario Court of Appeal was
not entitled to address questions of fact on a Crown
appeal. (CBC) MORE:
2011 SCC 48New trial

VANCOUVER - A man who worked at an Indian
residential school in northern Saskatchewan is charged
with abusing boys at that institution. Paul Leroux was
a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential
School in the 1960s. He's accused of indecent assaults
against 13 boys who attended the school at that time,
the RCMP said. The victims were between 3 and 18 years
old at the time. (CBC)

CALGARY - Repeatedly raping his daughter
- a crime kept secret because the girl didn't want her
little brother to lose his dad - has landed a Calgary
man a 6-year prison term. Justice Peter Clark accepted
a joint Crown and defence submission which spared the
victim having to testify against her father. The father,
35, pleaded guilty last Oct 25 to incest for sexually
abusing his daughter from the time she was 7 or 8, until
she disclosed it when she was 11. (QMI)

SYDNEY -
An Ingonish Beach man has been sent to prison following
a lengthy police investigation that uncovered thousands
of images of child pornography. David Carter Roger
Archibald pleaded guilty to 21 counts of making child
porn, 14 of distributing it and 1 count of possessing
it. Archibald was sentenced to three years in prison.
(CBC)

VANCOUVER - A Surrey, BC
man has been charged with sex offences against 6
minors over the last two decades, and police believe
there could be several more victims. James Cardno, 46,
was arrested and charged in March in connection with
eight sex-related offences involving four children under
the age of 16. (CTV)

VANCOUVER -
A former acting teacher at BC's Capilano
College has been found guilty of multiple sex offences
involving children. Michael Berry was convicted in BC
Supreme Court in Vancouver on 13 sex-related charges
dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. The
court was told the West Vancouver man befriended girls
between the ages of 7 and 13. He then photographed or
filmed them naked or engaging in sex acts with each
other or himself. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
Former teacher faces 23 more sex charges

CALGARY - A Calgary man has been charged with making and
distributing child pornography. The Southern Alberta
Internet Child Exploitation Unit was involved in an
undercover operation led by the FBI. Roderick "Kyle"
Janssen, 35, has been charged with possession of child
pornography, accessing child pornography, making child
pornography, and distributing child pornography.
Additional charges are pending. (CTV)

BELLEVILLE - A southeastern Ontario woman
was handed a two-year sentence for child pornography
offences involving her infant daughter. The woman
pleaded guilty on March 1 to sexual interference and
producing child porn. Police allege thousands of
pictures of an 11-month-old girl were found on the
child's father's cellphone after he lost it last
August. The 24-year-old father, who also lives near
Belleville, received a six-year prison sentence in
February. (CP)

KINGSTON - A Napanee man who worked as a
clown pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
Randy Miller, 40, pleaded guilty to two counts of
possession of child pornography, one count of making
child pornography available, and one count of sexual
assault involving a minor. He was arrested last October
as part of an international police sting called Project
Sanctuary. Police found about 60,000 pornographic
images of children on his computers. (CityNews)
MORE: Guilty plea

VANCOUVER - Crown approved charges
against two men in relation to the sexual assault of a
16-year-old girl at a rave party in Pitt Meadows on
September 10, 2010. Colton Ashton McMORRIS, 18, of
Maple Ridge has been charged with sexual assault,
contrary to Section 271 of the Criminal Code. Dennis
John Allen WARRINGTON, 19, of Langley has been charged
under Criminal Code Sec. 163.1 (2) for the production of
the child pornography and Sec. 163.1 (3) for the
distribution of child pornography. (RCMP) PREVIOUS:
Arrest in gang rape

431 years

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -
A serial sex offender has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life
in prison for kidnapping and raping a California girl and holding her
captive for 18 years while fathering her two children. A judge on Thursday imposed the maximum
possible sentence of 431 years to life on 60-year-old Phillip Craig
Garrido, calling the defendant's treatment of Jaycee Dugard evil and
reprehensible. MORE:
Jaycee Lee DugardPolice focus on ‘monster’ Nancy
'Wait until you hear the story'

LOUISA, Virginia
- A Canadian man who travelled to the US intent on impregnating a
14-year-old girl and bringing her home with him has been sentenced to a
whopping 110 years behind bars south of the border. Alan Sauve,
48, of Windsor was convicted of 22 counts of soliciting a child over the
Internet for sexual purposes. (QMI)

HAGUE -
International police led by a UK team say they shut down
the largest internet paedophile ring yet discovered.
The global forum had 70,000 followers at its height,
leading to 4,000 intelligence reports being sent to
police across 30 countries. The operation has so far
identified 670 suspects and 230 abused children.
Detectives say 184 people have been arrested - 121 of
them were in the UK. Some 60 children have been
protected in the UK. The three-year investigation,
Operation Rescue, was led by investigators from the UK's
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop).
(BBC)

PITTSBURGH - A former Ottawa cop is heading to
prison for 10 1/2 years for traveling to the US to have
sex with a minor. A Pennsylvania judge sentenced Paul
Maher, 60, Tuesday after he pleaded guilty last year in
an online teen sex sting. Maher drove nearly 965 km in
his pickup truck in June 2008 to Mount Pleasant, Penn.
to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he had been chatting
with for nine months. (QMI) MORE: Former Canadian cop sentencedGuilty pleaSex sting

25 years

NEWARK - For eight years, John Wrenshall took
young boys - some no older than four years old - into
his home in Bangkok, Thailand, and charged men invited
from around the world for the opportunity to videotape
themselves sexually abusing them. On Monday, the
64-year-old former Calgary scout leader learned he would
spend the next 25 years in a US prison after pleading
guilty in a New Jersey courtroom to three counts of an
18-count indictment related to his operation of what
was, quite literally, a brothel for pedophiles.
MORE: Judge sentences CanadianGuilty pleaMan admits running child brothelJustice Department release

OTTAWA - He slept with the 14-year-old
girl, groomed her 11-year-old sister for sex play and
used violence and threats to keep them in line. On
Friday, a judge sentenced Collin Robinson, 33, to 6 1/2
years in prison. That's on top of a 10-month sentence
he received for sexually interfering with their
4-year-old sister while he dated their mother. (QMI)

TORONTO - Police say a York University
researcher who was among 57 men charged in connection
with an international child pornography network has
committed suicide. York University spokesman says
Richard Dyde died Thursday at age 47 - a day after his
arrest was made public. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Child
porn networkClown, professor and university don among
arrested

OSHAWA - A convicted child molester who befriended then
sexually assaulted and videotaped numerous young girls
has been declared a long-term offender and sentenced to
12 years in prison. It’s recommended that Ross Stratton
undergo treatment that includes chemical castration to
curb his sex drive, Justice Paul Bellefontaine said in
Oshawa court. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Suspect may be prolific pedophileFriendly stranger and his house of
horrors

ORANGEVILLE - A former
provincial police officer is going to prison for eight
years for molesting boys over a 25-year period while he
was on the force. Robert Lewis, 63, was found guilty of
19 sex-related offences that occurred between 1969 and
2004 and involved seven victims. (QMI)
PREVIOUS: Retired officer convicted

LADYSMITH
- RCMP say they are overwhelmed by the discovery of about
1M pictures of child pornography found on the computers of a Ladysmith,
BC, man. The 64-year-old was arrested after police executed search
warrants at his business, in his car and at his home in the Vancouver
Island community. Officers seized 10 computers and several digital
cameras, web cameras, DVDs and 29 hard drives, all containing sexually
explicit images of minors. (CBC)

EDMONTON -
The mother of a young Edmonton girl abducted and raped
by a pedophile with a long history of attacking children
has launched a $1M lawsuit against authorities. The
statement of claim, filed in court Monday, alleges the
Edmonton Police Service, the Correctional Service of
Canada, the National Parole Board, the Minister of
Public Safety and the Attorney General of Canada are
responsible for the attack by sexual predator Danial
Gratton. (QMI)

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg
man, convicted 5 times of molesting children, has been
ordered deported to his native Philippines. Josefino
Abelada, 49, had most recently pled guilty to two counts
of sexual interference and one count of breaching a
probation order. He was sentenced Tuesday to 22 months
in jail. (QMI)

BARRIE - A Barrie Ont., man who played the role of Santa
in the city’s annual Christmas parades was sent to jail
yesterday for possession of thousands of images and
movies of child pornography. Daniel Gyselinck, 58,
stood in the prisoner’s box with a snowy white beard and
long white hair and was taken away in handcuffs after
pleading guilty to possession of child pornography as
well as making child pornography after he copied it from
Limewire onto thousands of CDs. (QMI)

VANCOUVER - Tim
Bachman, one of the founding members of the 1970s
Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has been
charged with three sex-related crimes involving a
minor. The charges against Bachman include one count of
sexual touching, one count of sexual interference and
one count of sexual assault, all involving the same
female, who police say was 11 when the crimes started.
The charges relate to incidents that are alleged to have
occurred in Abbotsford between June 2000 and April
2004. (CBC) Tim
Bachman

MONTREAL - Bill Surkis, the former Quebec regional
director for B'nai Brith, has pleaded guilty to
possession of child pornography. It's a stunning
reversal for the well-respected member of Montreal's
Jewish community. Surkis, 70, was Academic Dean of John
Abbott College for 22 years, in addition to being the
regional director for the Jewish-rights group B'nai
Brith. (CTV)

KINGSTON - A
man involved with an Ottawa church who was convicted in
the past of assaulting more than one dozen choir boys in
the Kingston area is charged with another historical
sexual assault in Kingston. Police charged John
Gallienne, 65, with indecent assault. Investigators say
the allegations against Gallienne date back to 1980. Gallienne
is a former Anglican choirmaster in Kingston, who
pleaded guilty to 20 sex crimes against young boys
between 1975 and 1990. He was also convicted of three
more sex charges involving another boy in 1992. (CTV)

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has
overturned the child pornography conviction of a
Saskatchewan man, after agreeing his rights were
violated by an unreasonable search of his home computer.
Urbain P. Morelli claimed his charter rights were
violated because his computer was searched by police
after a visiting computer technician noticed two
suspicious links on his home computer. In a split, 4-3
decision, the high court acquitted Morelli after ruling
police relied on a "carelessly drafted" and "misleading"
search warrant. (CP)

A tip from US investigators led the RCMP
to lay child pornography charges against a Labrador
teacher. Mark Baxter White, 40, of Happy Valley-Goose
Bay has been suspended with pay from his job as an
English teacher and librarian at Mealy Mountain
Collegiate. (CBC)

QUEBEC ­- A man convicted of kidnapping a
child, raping him and leaving him an empty fuel tank in
Levis, Que. said he regrets his actions, though he
maintains he has no memory of the events. Pierre Defoy,
52, said he knows he committed the crimes for which he
pleaded guilty to after seeing the evidence against him,
and says he believes his victim ³100 %." Dr. John Wolwertz testified that Defoy's
struggles with his sexual orientation, and may have
developed amnesia to divert his attention away from his
crime. Wolwertz also said Defoy was at a high risk to
re-offend. (QMI)

WINDSOR - A judge in Windsor, Ont., is deciding how to sentence a
woman who repeatedly sexually assaulted her two-year-old
son while live-streaming the acts on the internet. The
woman, who is from Lakeshore, Ont., on Lake St. Clair,
was facing 12 charges, but pleaded guilty to five of
them, including sexual assault, making child pornography
and possessing child pornography. An earlier charge of
bestiality was withdrawn. The woman's name is banned
from publication to protect her child. (CBC)

VANCOUVER - A Surrey pastor was convicted and
sentenced to jail after an explicit video was posted
online encouraging the rape of a young teenage girl.
Larry Robert Collins was convicted for possession of
child pornography. He was sentenced to 15 months in
jail, to be followed by three years of probation.
(CTV)

VANCOUVER - A man accused of child-sex crimes in
Thailand and Cambodia has admitted in a BC court that
police have reasonable grounds to fear he is a risk to
the public. A five-day court hearing had been planned
for Orville Mader to determine if he posed a risk and
should be held under a peace bond. (CP) MORE: Canadian paedophile admits
he represents an ongoing threat

EDMONTON - An Edmonton pedophile who molested two boys
and sexually abused a young girl has been handed a
12-year penitentiary sentence and tagged a long-term
offender. That means when Harold Francis Pretty, 59, is
released from prison into the community, he will be on
probation under strict conditions for 10 years. (Sun
Media)

ST ALBERT - A 45-year-old Edmonton-area man, who was
charged with possessing child pornography, was found
dead by RCMP. Officers found the body of Kerry Glen
Avey lying near a vehicle parked in the visitors area of
the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 2:35am Saturday.
Police say Avey died from a self-inflicted gun shot to
the head. A shotgun was found near the body. (CTV)
MORE:
Teacher kills self
Suspect kills self

GANDER, NL -
A charge of making child pornography has been laid against a retired
RCMP officer who was charged earlier this year with possession of child
pornography. In March, Hank Johnston, 72, of Gander, was charged with
possession of child pornography in what the RCMP described as
country-wide crackdown on child porn. (CBC)

BARRIE -
Unrepentant to the end, David Carswell has dodged a jail term for having
child pornography images on his computer. Justice Nancy Dawson, who
said the 55-year-old retired school teacher has shown no remorse even
after she convicted him in June and may still remain a risk, nonetheless
spared Carswell a jail cell and instead sentenced him to six months of
house arrest. (Toronto Star)

WINNIPEG - Ross Brown was a
respected doctor, a former president of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and
sat on the board of directors for Special Olympics. Today he sits in
jail, serving a 45-day sentence for possession of child pornography.
(Sun Media)

WINNIPEG - A 19-year-old man was arrested. He is facing
a total of 60 charges, including 21 counts of sexual
assault, 5 counts of administering a noxious substance,
2 counts of forcible confinement and 1 count of juvenile
prostitution. In a statement, RCMP said investigators
identified 11 victims, all boys between the ages of
eight and 14. Police say the alleged offences occurred
between 2002 and July, 2009. (CTV) MORE: 60 sex offences against boys

TORONTO -
A Toronto man has been accused of molesting a five-year-old boy in a
Moss Park apartment. The 50-year-old accused, apparently a
friend of the boy's family, allegedly brought the young victim to his Sherbourne St. apartment on Thursday, according to Toronto Police.
Dennis James Taylor was arrested and charged with sexual
assault and sexual interference. (Sun Media) MORE: Pedophile accused of assaulting boy

AJAX -
For two years Ray Collingham felt like somebody was
holding a gun to his head. The reality was even worse.
The 39-year-old former gymnastics teacher was accused -
and acquitted - of having sex with an 11-year-old boy he
had coached. (Sun Media)

VICTORIA - The
Law Society of BC wants
the public to know the name of a lawyer who was
convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor. Harold
Garrett Power was convicted in May of this year and has
since given up the ability to practise law, but a
publication ban has until now prevented the society and
the media from naming him. A BC Supreme Court judge has
lifted the ban, prompting the law society to send out a
news release revealing Power's identity to "protect the
public." (CP)

VANCOUVER - A Lower mainland businessman is offering
a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest
of the man accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old
girl. Police say the attack happened on Friday evening
in the area of 139th Street & 62nd Avenue when the girl
was walking home with her brother, 12, and his
friend,15. Police say a man with a knife threatened the
boys, separated them from the girl and assaulted her.
(CBC) MORE:
Girl, 6, sexually assaulted

CALGARY - Police
have charged a Calgary man after receiving sexual assault complaints
from three young girls dating back to 1998. On July 10th, Child Abuse
Unit investigators charged 53-year-old Ronald A. Sayers with three
counts of sexual interference with a child under the age of 16 and three
counts of sexual assault. (CTV)

VANCOUVER - A
popular teacher at an Abbotsford Catholic high school has been charged
with child exploitation after an incident involving one of his female
students. Abbotsford Police say the two charges against Martin Careen,
49, were laid after an investigation began in April. (CTV)

OTTAWA - A local Roman Catholic
congregation is stunned to learn one of their own is facing child
pornography charges. Father James Anthony Jordan, 63, a member of the
Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was arrested and charged with one
count of possessing child pornography. (Sun Media)

EDMONTON - A diagnosed
pedophile and sex addict who was a former Edmonton school teacher's
assistant and volunteer with Kids Kottage has been put behind bars for
child porn. Todd William Tenetiuk, 41, was sentenced to seven
months in jail, followed by three years' probation, after earlier
pleading guilty to charges of possession of child pornography and
distribution of child pornography. (Sun Media)

VANCOUVER - The BC Court of Appeal has more than doubled
the sentence for a man convicted of sexually abusing his
daughter for 13 years, starting when she was a toddler.
The Crown had appealed last November's sentence of
2
years less a day and the appeal court agreed. The man must now
serve a 5-year prison sentence, plus 3 years
probation. (CP)

EDMONTON - Local cops are
closely watching what US media are calling one of the worst child- porn
cases ever as it unfolds in Mexico. Edmonton police Staff Sgt. Howard
Kunce of the Integrated Child Exploitation Unit said it will likely take
a couple of weeks for Mexican and Canadian federal cops to sort through
the mountain of evidence seized last week from a Tijuana beachfront home
belonging to Canadian Arthur Leland Sayler. (Sun Media) MORE:
Police explore local linkPREVIOUS:
Global kid-porn ring

SAUDI ARABIA
- An 8-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who was married off by her father to
a man in his 50s has had the union annulled. The case, which had
generated local and international outrage, ended with an out-of-court
settlement. The child, who has not been named, had been told by a
court last December that she would not be allowed to divorce her husband
until she reached puberty. (Guardian UK) PREVIOUS: Divorce denied

Police
across Canada have arrested more than 50 people on
charges of sexual assault, sexual interference and
possessing, making and distributing child pornography.
Project Salvo, the largest-ever coordinated
investigation of Internet-based child sexual abuse in
Canada, was led by the National Child Exploitation
Coordination Centre (NCECC).
(CTV)

TRENTON - A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child
pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on
MySpace.com - charges that could force her to register as a sex offender
if convicted. Maureen Kanka - whose daughter, Megan, became the law's
namesake after she was raped and killed at age 7 in 1994 by a
twice-convicted sex offender - blasted authorities for charging the
14-year-old girl. "This shouldn't fall under
Megan's Lawin any way, shape or form. She
should have an intervention and counseling, because the only person she
exploited was herself." (AP)

MONTREAL - Police have released a photo
of a 71-year-old alleged pedophile in the hopes that other alleged
victims will come forward. Leonide Corbin is accused of molesting
three young girls between 1971 and 2008 in Montreal and Lachute. (CTV)

MONTREAL - A self-described pastor who hoped his
"marriage" to a 10-year-old girl he took to bed would
convince a judge to acquit him on a sexual assault
charge was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday.
Daniel Cormier, who was convicted last October
following a lengthy trial, has a maximum of 49 months
left behind bars because of time already served. (CP)

TORONTO - Sperm
found on underpants worn by a 7-year-old boy matches
that of an HIV-positive man accused of molesting him, a
forensic scientist says. Kelly Bowie, of the Centre of
Forensic Sciences, said yesterday the chances of DNA in
the sperm belonging to someone other than Donald Mumford
are one in 2.2 trillion. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
Threatened with death, kid testifiesMan molested me frequently

REGINA - More than
a year after Darren Philpott was arrested, and two
months after he died in a Regina hospital, there are
things Michelle* wants to know. There are so many
questions she had hoped to ask Philpott herself one day,
but they will now go forever unanswered. (Regina
Leader-Post) PREVIOUS:
Part 1
Part 2Part 3
Part 4Part 5

TORONTO - Paul Thomas was
a volunteer at a city-run daycare in downtown Toronto,
where he formed a special group called "J club" for some
of the children he helped mind. So when he repeatedly
engaged in sexual activity with a 5-year-old boy, the
victim was worried that, if he told on Thomas, he would
be kicked out of the club and lose out on candy, prizes
and a feeling of being special. (Toronto Star)

VICTORIA
- The arrest of a Victoria man
for possessing child pornography has sparked
investigations in 16 countries. Matthew Cohen, 21,
traded more than 186,000 child pornography images with
hundreds of people around the world, Victoria police Det.
Bob Elder said yesterday. Details of the case have been
kept secret until now to allow other jurisdictions to
pursue suspects. (Victoria Times Colonist)

TORONTO - Police are asking parents of children at a
daycare in the city's northwest to come forward after
two men were arrested and charged with sexual assaults
at the facility. A 12-year-old girl told police that
she was sexually assaulted by a man at Benevenga Day
Care on Apted Ave. (Toronto Star)

MUSKEY LAKE CREE NATION
- RCMP are investigating an allegation of a sexual
assault on a 3-year-old girl by a group of preteens on
the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. "All of those involved are
under 12 so when our investigation is complete we'll
pass it on to child and family services. It's about
getting help to everyone involved," Blaine Lake RCMP
Const. Kirby Lavik said. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix)

TORONTO -
A former children's store employee is facing child pornography-related
charges after police discovered photos of three Toronto victims amid
thousands of images seized from a home he frequented. Geoffrey
Tang, 36, also known as Chun Chung Geoffrey Tang, has been charged with
11 offences, including sexual assault, voyeurism and making child
pornography. (Toronto Star)

EDMONTON - For the victims
of sexual assaults at the hands of a St. Albert man, a decades-old quest
for justice took a major step forward when RCMP arrested 85-year-old
Anton Paul Rapati after he was spotted by an older sister of one of the
children he allegedly abused. After hiding out in the Netherlands for
over fifteen years, Anton Rapati was arrested at his brother's house the
day after a woman spotted the senior attending a St. Albert church.
(Deadmonton) MORE:
85-year old arrest for decades old assaults
Anton Rapati interviewIndignity to human body

TORONTO - The actor formerly featured in a series of
popular commercials for Alexander Keith's beer has been
sentenced to 21 months in jail for possession of child
pornography and making it available online. In addition
to the 21-month sentence, the judge imposed a term of
three-years probation where Robert Smith is not allowed
to possess a computer or any similar device except at
work and cannot see his children unless another adult is
present. (CanWest)
Actor gets jailGuilty plea

REGINA - RCMP investigators are looking into the
possibility more victims may be identified after
announcing that dozens of sexual assault charges have
been laid against Ronald Anthony Sawa, a former employee
of the Saskatchewan Boys Centre - now known as the Paul
Dojack Youth Centre. Sawa, 58, was arrested by the RCMP
Friday morning at his Regina home and taken into custody
after a four-year investigation resulting in 39 counts
of sexual assault involving 18 complainants. (Regina
Leader Post)

VICTORIA - BC Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston has
sentenced Saanich pedophile Otto Edward Schneider to 12
years in prison for sexually assaulting three young
girls. To recognize the harm done to each child,
Johnston imposed three consecutive four-year-sentences
-- one for each of Schneider's victims. (Victoria Times
Colonist)

QUEBEC CITY - An
8-year-old boy who was grabbed off the street in broad daylight, stuffed
into the trunk of a car and later locked in an oil drum was saved by
quick-thinking witnesses who alerted police to the abduction. (CanWest) MORE:
Abducted boy rescued after witnesses' quick thinking

Predator
gets parole

KINGSTON - A convicted internet predator
who victimized two Alberta teens by trying to get them
to perform sexual acts on camera has been given day
parole after serving less than a year of his nine-year
sentence Joshua Innes was 25 when he was sentenced
last August after pleading guilty to two counts of child
internet luring, two counts of extortion and one count
of distributing child pornography. (CBC)
PREVIOUS: Predator loses appeal for
less time

TORONTO - A judge made it clear
he had no patience for the crimes of a former Toronto
jail guard and volunteer soccer coach who implored a
woman to sexually abuse her grandchildren in front of a
webcam. "Cases involving the use of the Internet as a
means of finding, collecting and disseminating child
pornography appear in our courts with depressing
regularity," Ontario Superior Court Justice David
McCombs said before handing Matthew Hughes a 15-month
sentence for the possession and distribution of child
pornography, charges to which he pleaded guilty in
March. (Toronto Star)

VANCOUVER - An elderly couple has been ordered to pay
$415,000 in damages to their niece who was sexually
assaulted by her uncle - abetted by his wife - more than
40 years ago after she lived with them following the
death of her mother. Joginder Singh Bains and his wife
Darshan - wealthy farmers - denied being involved in
sexually assaulting Karamjeet Kour Singh (now known as
Vicki Waters) in a civil action last year but BC Supreme
Court Justice Nancy Morrison found the pair
responsible. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Judge
praises courage of abuse victim

MONTREAL -
Twenty-seven men from various parts
of the province face child pornography charges after
police discovered a group was using a website based in
Germany to trade computer files containing porn.
(Montreal Gazette)

TURNER
VALLEY - A host of child pornography-related charges
have been laid against an employee at a school on a
native reserve south of Calgary. Turner Valley RCMP
launched an investigation on June 13, after
"questionable" photos were found near a printer, at Eden
Valley School. Mounties then searched a home on the
reserve, finding further evidence of child exploitation
crimes. On June 20, police arrested Leon Rider, a
42-year-old man from the Eden Valley Reserve. (Calgary
Herald)

SASKATOON - An international child pornography
investigation with tentacles all over the world reached
Saskatoon last week with the arrest of a local man on a
single charge of possessing images of child abuse.
Malcolm John Rollins, 52, made his first appearance
before a judge in provincial court. The charge stems
from information provided to city police by
investigators working on
Operation Koala,
a massive effort that began in Australia in 2006.
(Saskatoon Star Phoenix)

TORONTO -
For Brian Brown, "the world crashed" when he was
arrested on charges of child porn - the very crime he
says he was trying to fight. The computer expert claims
he was volunteering with the Toronto police to develop
software aimed at combating child porn online. But
officers with the OPP and York Region police paint a
more sinister picture of the Richmond Hill man. They
say they found pornographic images of children on his
home computer and that he was distributing them.
(Toronto Star)

CALGARY - The Crown is looking at having a former city
man declared a long-term offender or dangerous offender
after he admitted to sexually abusing an eight-year-old
girl, bestiality and possessing child pornography. Gary
Wayne Todd, 53, who entered the courtroom in a
wheelchair, pleaded guilty through defence lawyer Mark
Gottlieb on Monday to charges relating to all three sets
of allegations. (Calgary Herald)

AMSTETTEN
- For 24 years Josef Fritzl
led a double life: above ground he played the upstanding
family man, while in the basement he imprisoned and
raped his daughter. Details are slowly emerging of how
he ruthlessly planned his terrible crime. (Spiegel)
PREVIOUS: Elaborate cellar
revealedFritzl incest case

KINGSTON, Ont. - Red-faced and unwilling to make eye
contact with anyone in court, a 23-year-old sexual
predator apologized to the dozens of teenage girls he
had fooled into performing degrading acts in front of
their webcams. "I want to say I'm sorry to the victims
and families and I hope that they can move on now," Mark
Bedford said before he was sentenced to three years in a
federal penitentiary. (CanWest) MORE: Canadian student jailed over
porn

TORONTO - A 23-year-old Toronto man has been charged
after a police investigation into sexually explicit
online conversations with a child. An investigation led
to police searching a Toronto home yesterday, where a
man was arrested, Toronto police said today. Tyler
Haas, 23, faces four charges, including luring a child.
(CP)

EDMONTON - A Spruce Grove man was sentenced Friday to
two years in prison for sexually interfering with his
young niece and possessing and accessing child
pornography. He cannot be named to protect the identity
of the girl, who shares his last name. (Edmonton
Journal)

TORONTO – A judge has jailed one of the last Toronto men
to be sentenced in a massive international child
pornography sweep called Project Snowball. Superior
Court Justice Robert Clark said that sentencing Mario
Digenio, 62, to house arrest – as suggested by the
defence – would simply be sending him back to the same
home from which he viewed the "vile and degrading
material." Instead, Clark sent the slight,
frail-looking restaurant worker to prison for six
months, followed by three years probation. (Toronto
Star) PREVIOUS: Global child porn probe led to false
accusations

A Prince George, BC high
school teacher has been arrested and charged with
possessing and distributing child pornography. News of
the arrest of Michael Gardiner, 60, a veteran English
teacher, spread quickly through the 1,500 students of
Prince George Secondary School. (CTV)

CALGARY - A father has admitted he repeatedly sexually
abused and took degrading pornographic pictures of his
young daughter over a three-year period. The
36-year-old man, who cannot be named in order to protect
his daughter's identity, began the abuse when he slapped
her in the head and pushed her into walls when she was
10, then sexually assaulted her as often as four times a
month when she was 11 and 12. (Calgary Herald)

VANCOUVER - A former BC lawyer with a long history of
involvement with children's groups has pleaded guilty to
six sexual offences against kids dating back to the
1970s. Gordon Hazlewood, 73, of Abbotsford, pleaded
guilty in North Vancouver Provincial Court to four
charges of gross indecency and two charges of indecent
assault against boys, who were all under 14 at the time
of the offences. The charges date back to events that
happened between August 1969 and November 1977. (North
Shore News)

VERNON - A BC man was convicted for the horrific
kidnapping, drugging, and rape of an 11-year-old girl. Paul LePage was found guilty in BC Supreme Court for
sexual assault causing bodily harm and abduction. He was
also found guilty of giving the little girl a drug to
commit an indictable offence. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Guilty
of kidnapping and rapeProsecutors praise
victim's composure

DRUMHELLER, AB - A judge in Drumheller handed a man a
nine-month sentence Friday for molesting three young
boys. The offender, who was 17 when he committed the
crimes, will spend the first six months in closed
custody and the remaining third of his sentence in the
community under supervision. (Calgary Herald)

PEMBROKE - A prominent
Ottawa Valley priest whose service to the Catholic Church was rewarded
with a Vatican post was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday for
sexually molesting 13 young boys. Reading from a handwritten statement,
Msgr. Bernard Prince, 72, showed no emotion as he apologized to his
victims for his "legal and moral" wrongdoing after being found guilty of
one charge of indecent assault and pleading guilty to 12 more charges of
indecent and sexual assault. Court heard the assaults took place between
1964 and 1984. (Ottawa Citizen)

CALGARY - A US man
accused of raping a nine-year-old girl in BC will be
extradited from Nevada to stand trial in Canada. Wilbur
James Ventling, who went by the alias John James
Stewart, was captured by U.S. marshals in Carson City,
Nev., in October after 28 years on the lam. Ventling,
63, had previously been arrested for 10 sexual offences
in Calgary against young girls ages five to 13, alleged
to have occurred between 1978 and 1979. (Calgary
Herald) PREVIOUS: Man arrested in 1970s
child rapesRape
suspect nabbed in US

A
convicted pedophile who refuses therapy and admits to a
strong attraction to young girls was declared a
dangerous offender yesterday as an ongoing risk to the
community. A decision written by Justice Gerald Morin
found Paul Delorme, 38, meets the criteria for several
reasons. (Ottawa Citizen)

VICTORIA - A second alleged sexual-assault victim has
come forward in the case of John Gabriel Viszlai, a
longtime Scouts Canada volunteer who was first charged
last July. Viszlai, then 49, was arrested July 11 at a
Scouts jamboree on the Sunshine Coast and later charged
in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a
10-year-old boy from 15 years ago. (Victoria Times
Colonist) PREVIOUS:
Scouts volunteer faces child sex chargesScouts volunteer in BC charged with sex
assault

WOODSTOCK
- A Calgarian convicted of molesting a four-year-old
Illinois girl blamed the child for acting provocatively
sexually toward him before a judge sentenced him to
three years in prison. Kenneth Cooke, 73, told Judge
Joseph Condon in a US courtroom Friday he tried to avoid
the encounters. (Calgary Herald) MORE: Molester claims 4-year-old provoked him

A
North Vancouver RCMP member has been charged with
possession of child pornography, a fact the Mounties
kept quiet for more than four months. Court documents
show that Const. Andrew Ugrica was charged on Aug. 10
with one count of possession of child pornography.
(Vancouver Sun)

CALGARY - Just hours after allegedly stealing a car in
central Alberta, police say an 18-year-old man called
his mother from his cellphone to say he'd abducted a
six-year-old boy. Little did he know his mother wasn't
the only one listening in. (Calgary Herald)
PREVIOUS: Police rescue boy